La Tela di Carlotta is on Montessori en Casa (interview)

In my heart, there are many dates to celebrate when I think about La Tela: the first post, the big redesign done by my amazing hubby, when it became trilingual, the first little money I earned through it. But it’s around a year ago that I realised that my blog was growing more and faster than I ever imagined, and that I could convert it into my main job.Writing has always been my biggest passion, I became a journalist and decided to study translation to become a literature translator—the idea...

Oliver has always been a very gentle boy. He never hit, bit, pushed. Actually, he was always at the receiving end of hitting, biting and pushing. Lately, though, he’s started standing up for himself, and when he’s pushed, he pushes back. Sometimes he even pushes first. On one hand, I’m happy he defends himself. On the other hand, pushing, biting and hitting are not behaviours I accept, no matter if “all kids do it”.As a Montessori fan, I don’t believe in punishments: I read on several books a...

I’ve been telling you for a while about Oliver starting a Montessori school in October. We’ve raised him Montessori since he was born, I’ve been studying the methods, the gorgeous philosophy, the materials. I’ve made up my mind about which of those methods I want to/can apply at home and which I don’t. About where I draw the limit between being Montessori at all costs and being practical (don’t get me wrong, one doesn’t always exclude the other).Sending Oliver to a Montessori school was an ea...

In the wake of the enthusiasm for the end of the No Child Left Behind era—the ridiculous reform of Bush’s presidency based on a “teaching to the test” mentality—I was thinking about Montessori schools and how much more natural and logic their method is.This video (scroll up :-) was one of the first videos I saw when I started studying (and appreciating) the Montessori school method, before even thinking of bringing it into my house.Honestly, I wasn’t impressed only by the fact that everything...

In my post about the news on La Tela, I promised translations of my favourite blog posts and today I’d like to present to you the first one.This blog is called Montessori en Casa and it’s written by Cristina Tébar, from Madrid, montessori mother of two, trained with KHT Montessori. Since 2013, she shares on her blog stories, experiences, theories, activities and tips about this method, to show that montessori is for everyone — not only if your children go to montessori schools, or if you have...

Tempo fa incappai in un documentario sulle scuole Montessori che mostrava una tipica giornata di lezione. Oltre al metodo — di cui sono indubbiamente un fan — che gioca sull’indipendenza di scelta, sul lavoro individuale, sull’importanza di iniziare e terminare un lavoro, una delle cose che più mi colpì fu la regolaNon interrompere mai il lavoro di un compagnoSecondo Maria Montessori, quando interrompiamo il lavoro di un bambino, trasmettiamo il messaggio che ciò che sta facendo non sia valid...